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Subject: RE: BMC Patrol - 2nd Wave
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:51:09 -0800
One advantage to never having been consulted on whether it should be done
and having consultants installing it is that it would be hard to blame me
for anything that goes wrong :).
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You haven't been a DBA too long have you?
... if you manage the db, you are responsible. period.
at least that's the way it's been everywhere for me, but I could be wrong...
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 2:51 PM
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One
So my boss calls me over yesterday and tells me he needs two servers for 2nd
Wave to install BMC on to monitor the databases.
I say, huh?
Apparently the CIO decided to have a consulting company (2nd Wave) install
and configure BMC to monitor all the databases (Oracle and SQL Server) in
the
Title: RE: BMC Patrol - 2nd Wave
My experience is that BMC leaves a big footprint on the systems it monitors. So unless you have a system with 6+ cpu's the hogs reported are BMC related or the slow system is caused by BMC. And the $$ it costs, ouch.
I have seen better results in shops
Jay,
Not sure about you, but if my CIO pulled that one on me, he'd have
my resignation in about half a minute he knows it. That is just one
of those run all over your people things that every management course
tells you NOT to do. Otherwise I don't know of any real problems with
BMC
One advantage to never having been consulted on whether it should be done
and having consultants installing it is that it would be hard to blame me
for anything that goes wrong :).
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:13 PM
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My
